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Suster sense 78 Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

Adverbs

In the sentence, "Today's coins do not contain this rather valuable metal." is "today's" being used as an adverb.

  

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It's adjectival, describing the kind of coins we are talking about. Compare "Today, coins do not contain this rather valuable metal" where "Today" is adverbial.

  • It's adjectival, describing the kind of coins we are talking about.
  • Compare "Today, coins do not contain this rather valuable metal" where "Today" is adverbial.
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It's adjectival, describing the kind of coins we are talking about.

Compare "Today, coins do not contain this rather valuable metal" where "Today" is adverbial.

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suster sense 78Today's coins do not contain this rather valuable metal."

Today is a noun, and today's is the possessive form.

Possessive nouns are classified as determiners. Traditional grammars put articles, quantifiers, determiners and true adjectives in the class "adjective," so, under that system, it would be labeled an adje

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